Amirehsan Karbasizadeh
karbasizadeh At irip.ir
Research Interests:
Philosophy of Science, including laws of nature, explanation, inference and probability, scientific realism and philosophy of Physics; interpretations of probability, Metaphysics including dispositions, causation; Epistemology, including problems of induction and; Philosophy of Mind, including mental content and the mind-body problem.
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Iranian Institute of Philosophy
University Education:
Sep 2003 – Jan 2007 University of Bristol, PhD student in Philosophy and History of Science
Title of the thesis: Laws of Nature.
Sep 2002 - Jun 2003 University of Cambridge, MPhil, History and Philosophy of Science and
MedicineMPhil thesis: Causality and the Best Possible World
Sep 1999 - Jun 2001 Sharif University of Technology, MA in Philosophy of Science
MA thesis: Bayesianism in Philosophy of Science
Sep 1994 - Sep 1999 Isfahan University of Technology, BSC Electronics.
Publications in English:
1. Laws and Humean Supervenince, proceeding of the 31 Wittgenstein Symposium, Oct 2008
2. Troubles for Cluster Conception of Species, Proceeding of the Nature and its classification conference, Oct 2007
3. Revising the Concept of Lawhood, Natural kinds and Special Sciences, Synthese, 2008.
4. Humeans versus Neo-essentialists on Laws, Properties and Recombination Principle. Proceeding of the first analytic philosophy conference, Iranian Institute of Philosophy, 2007
5. Taking Metaphysics Seriously, Science and Metaphysics, Tehran, 2004.
6. Revisiting Hume’s Sceptical Argument against Induction, Proceeding of the Second International Conference on Sadra, Vol 2, Tehran, 2004.
Submitted Papers:
1. Troubles for the Micro-Essentialist Conception of Chemical Kinds, Submitted to the studies in History and Philosophy of Science
2. Categoricalism and Dispositionalism: the Transcendental Arguments, Submitted to Dialectica
Publication in Persian:
1. Deductive Nomological model of explanation, Mesbah, No22, Tehran, 2001.
2. Review of Philosophy of Social Science by Brian Fay, Mesbah, 21, Tehran, 2001.
3. Wittgenstein on Meaning, Sharif Journal of Humanities and Cultural studies, summer 2001.
4. Modern Apologetics, Sharif Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, winter 2001.
Teaching Experience:
Sep 2007- Sharif University of Technology
Metaphysics of Science
Sep 2007- Iranian Institute of Philosophy
Central Issues in Philosophy of Science
Feb 2007- Jun 2007 Sharif University of Technology
Philosophy of Science, Causation, explanation and Laws
Sep 2004- Jun 2005 University of Bristol
Epistemology (Foundationalism, Reliablism and Scepticism); teaching
for second year philosophy students
Sep 2004 – Jun 2005 University of Bristol
Introduction to Philosophy A (Descartes and Hume, and topics in
Epistemology and Metaphysics); teaching for first year students
Sep 2001- Jun 2002 Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Logic (Logical Inferences and Probabilistic Inferences) and Philosophy
of Science (Theory and Evidence, Explanation and Scientific Realism)
Sep 2001- Jun 2002 Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
British Empiricists (Hume on Induction, Causation),
Sep1999 – Jun 2001 Adab High School, Tehran, Iran
Physics and Math.
Public presentations:
Troubles for Cluster Conception of Species, Nature and its classification, a Metaphysics of science conference, Birmingham, Oct 2007.
Epistemological Challenges for Laws of Nature, SILFS, Milan, Italy, Oct 2007.
Revising Nomicity, Annual conference of British Society for Philosophy of Science, University of Southampton, July 2006.
Laws and Necessity, Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, University of Lisbon, August 2005.
Defeating Humean Supervenience, Work in Progress Seminar, University of Bristol, July 2005
Humean Supervenience and Laws, Novel Approaches in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Bristol, June 2005.
Making Capacities Redundant: Cartwright on Dispositions and Capacities, Annual Conference of British Society for Philosophy of Science, University of Kent, July 2004.
Scientific Essentialism, Sharif University of Technology, June 2004.
Do Science and Religion Need each other? Discussion with Professor Roger Trig. Science, Religion and Society, St Edmunds, Cambridge, May 2003.
Attended Courses:
Formal Methods in Philosophy, Summer School for PhD students, Lund University, Sweden, August 2005.
Awards:
I came second in the competing Examination for granting scholarship for PhD in Iran 2002.
Recipient of Iranian Scholarship for PhD candidates 2002-2005
Recipient of the AHRC award from Bristol University for the last year of my PhD.
References:
Dr James Ladyman, (james.ladyman@bristol.ac.uk), Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol.
Dr Ann Whittle, University Lecturer (ann.whittle@manchester.ac.uk), Department of Philosophy, The University of Manchester.